Democracy and Economic Growth: A Historical Perspective

By J. Gerring, P. Bond, William T. Barndt, Carola Moreno. 2005

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics

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Protests as Strategic Games: Experimental Evidence from Hong Kong's Antiauthoritarian Movement* (2019, background): “…the consequences of political constraints for economic growth (e.g., DeLong and Shleifer 1993; Przeworski and Limongi 1993; Przeworski et al. 2000; Gerring et al. 2005; Rodrik and Wacziarg 2005; Persson and Tabellini 2006, 2008; Papaioannou and Siourounis 2008; Acemoglu and Robinson 2012; Bates,…”
A Complete Data Set of Political Regimes, 1800–2007 (2013, background): “Second, several recent studies use a “democratic stock” variable (usually a discounted sum of past years of democracy) as an explanatory variable for outcomes like economic growth or democratic stability (Muller 1988; Gerring et al. 2005; Persson and Tabellini 2009).”
Political Regimes and Economic Growth (2009, background): “…there is a strong causal effect of democracy (and as such political regimes) on income, being consistent with previous literature (rodrik, 1997; Gerring et al., 2005, among others), but which contradict those obtained by Papaioannou and Siourounis (2008a), where they do not control for the…”
Labour market- versus life course-related social policies: understanding cross-programme differences (2012, background): “Following this advice, the emerging standard today is not to include unit fixed effects when also including theoretically important time-invariant variables (Gerring et al. 2005; Iversen and Stephens 2008).”
Are Parliamentary Systems Better? (2009, unknown): “00 2* * 0.”
Democracy and Human Development (2012, background): “For example, if democracy influences growth it will have a salutary effect (Gerring et al. 2005); therefore, including per capita GDP in the regression models should underestimate the true effects of democracy on IMR.”
The Rule of Law and Economic Development (2008, background): “But a number of new approaches to testing the democracy-growth nexus have restored some of the indeterminacy that prevailed pre– Przeworski et al. Gerring et al. (2005) argue that if democracy is treated as a stock rather than a level concept then longer history of continuous democratic rule does…”
Earthquake propensity and the politics of mortality prevention (2010, unknown): “The age of democracy is measured by the number of years since a country has become a democracy, defined as 5 or above on the Polity scale (as in Gerring et al. , 2005). The institutionalization of the ruling party in non-democracies is calculated as the age of the largest government party less the y”
Clientelism, Credibility, and the Policy Choices of Young Democracies (2007, background): “Barndt et al. (2005) shows that countries with less democratic experience grow more slowly.”